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PayPal is to enter the already crowded field of mobile payment devices for small merchants with the launch in the U.K. of its own chip-and-PIN card reader device and smartphone app, the company announced Friday.

The announcement comes as Sweden’s iZettle, which previously had only a chip and sign reader, announced earlier this week it too had launched its own Chip-and-PIN device, and as Payleven, backed by Germany’s Rocket Internet, announced it had gone live also with a chip-and-PIN device which was fully compliant with all major debit and credit cards.

Earlier we reported on the progress made by the U.K.-based Powa, whose mPowa device has been signed up by Portugal Telecom.

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